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CLC committee raises concerns on material shortages 26 May, 2021 SHARE John Newcomb, CEO of the Builders Merchants Federation and Peter Caplehorn, CEO of the Construction Products Association, co-chairs of the Construction Leadership Council’s Product Availability working group have issued a statement.
Activity in the UK construction sector, already high at the start of the year, has been very robust and picked up sharply from the beginning of March. New housing and repair, maintenance and improvement (RMI), together with infrastructure, have led the way. We now also see increasingly strong performance in the commercial and industrial sub-sectors, applying further strain on the supply chain.
UK housebuilding under pressure from global timber shortage 25 May, 2021 SHARE Global timber shortages have put the UK housebuilding industry’s supply chain in the eye of a perfect storm – with faltering availability and rapidly rising costs of basic materials such as roofing batten.
This presents a serious challenge to the housebuilding industry – and one it must face and deal with as a group.
That is the stark message from some of the leading businesses and organisations from the roofing industry, which are expressing grave concerns about extremely low availability of European softwood (the raw material used to produce roofing batten) at a time of sustained high levels of demand from the housebuilding industry, as it continues to recover from all the disruption caused by the pandemic.